Glasgow - Strike for Equal Pay


No one wants a strike, but Glasgow's equal pay claims are heading back to the Employment Tribunals and industrial action is on the cards because:
  • After 8 months and 18 separate settlement meetings serious negotiations with the Council have still not got off the ground
  • The Council has been moving at the veritable 'speed of a glacier' since the start of this year - without much purpose or direction
  • The senior officials leading the sham settlement talks are the same group of officials who introduced the WPBR and who have been defending the scheme for years
  • Senior officials do not accept the judgment of the Court of Session, Scotland's highest civil court, that their WPBR pay scheme is 'unfit for purpose'
  • Nor do senior officials officials do not accept that the notorious 37 hour 'rule' is blatantly discriminatory or that they have failed to protect the interests of the Council's lowest paid, predominantly female workforce
  • The Council rejected the Claimants' comparators and settlement proposals out of hand - without a serious response or putting forward an alternative 
  • Presenting an one-sided offer to claimants at the 'fag end' of 2018 is a complete joke - not a negotiation

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